Domestic Violence Can Be Stopped

December 12, 2013|Letter to the editor

Regarding the editorial "So Hard To Stop" [Dec. 11]: Domestic violence is hard to stop, especially when police fail to arrest on probable cause and prosecutors don't assist reluctant victims and secure their safety so that they agree to testify, or when police don't gather alternative evidence to allow for prosecution that does not depend upon victim testimony.

It is also hard to stop when Connecticut courts insist on routinely diverting convicted abusers.